Kelly Drinks the Kool-Aid

“The controversy over President Trump’s call to the widow of fallen soldier Sgt. La David Johnson has consumed headlines this week, but White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, rather than quelling that controversy, fueled part of it on Thursday,” CBS News reports.

“Mr. Trump was criticized for not calling the families of the four soldiers killed in an ambush in Niger for days, and resorted to suggesting former President Barack Obama didn’t call the families of fallen soldiers. He even questioned whether Obama called Kelly when his son died in uniform overseas in 2010. But the controversy took yet another turn after Rep. Frederica Wilson, a Florida Democrat, claimed Mr. Trump told widowed Myeisha Johnson her husband ‘knew what he was getting into.'”

“On Thursday, Kelly, in a rare and stirring appearance before the White House press corps in the briefing room, said the congresswoman’s comments stunned him. He went on to recount a story about Wilson, without specifically naming her, saying she claimed to have secured the funding for an FBI field office in Miami dedicated in 2015. Wilson, on CNN’s “New Day Friday, called Kelly’s claim a ‘lie.'”

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